Quarterly reports are pretty clear on slower sales over the past 3quarters (though the very last was improved). Couple that to thegeneral lack of upgrades over the past couple years and pent up demandwill release. Q1 figures in Jan will tell more...

--She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics.-Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn.

The "pulse" of buying is simply pent up demand. People knew a refreshwas coming and waited it out. So sales have been low of late and nowthe buying spree begins.

That only works if the new machine is something people want.

Yup. As usual, John Gruber has a good take on this:

"If your priority is the display, the new displays are brighter (500nits) and offer wide color gamut. The new MacBook Pro SSDs offerindustry-leading read and write performance, years ahead of thecompetition. The 15-inch MacBook Pro offers a quad-core i7 with speedsup to 3.8 GHz. For many demanding use cases, these are professionalmachines. Just not all professions."

<http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/11/01/bjarnason-macbook-pros>

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